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...month's ration of mostly corn, with some beans - many recipients remain. They stand or sit in groups, waiting for food if they haven't yet been called, and arguing over how to divide the rations they've received. At the center with the food stash, police clutch assault rifles to scare off bandits, as well as sticks to beat recipients who try to steal. With just a few dozen sacks remaining, would-be thieves sprint in as a pack, and more join in as the numbers swell. "It always happens this time of day," Teko says. The officers thrash...
...insurgents swarmed through the key district of Arghandab - and escaped prisoners were among them, says district chief Ghulam Farouq. As the Taliban gained a footing in the villages, NATO and Afghan army troops launched a counter operation aimed at stopping the insurgents before they could mass for a major assault of their...
...Opponents of the government proposal say that the measure is an assault on Britain's legal traditions going back to the Magna Carta. "Terrorists want to destroy our liberties," said Cameron. "When we trash our liberties, we do their job for them." He brushed aside Brown's riposte that the opinion polls showed public support for the measure. "It is popular, but the point is we're supposed to do the right thing in this House...
...Young people took this message to heart all across the country. Angry protesters filled the streets at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago two months later, provoking helmeted police into a brutal assault. At Harvard the following spring, in 1969, students took over University Hall to protest the institution’s alleged complicity in the Vietnam War, once again provoking a police incursion, followed by a student “strike” that shut down the university...
What they didn’t see coming was a game that was essentially over by halftime. The Bulldogs’ secondary, ranked first in the nation in pass efficiency defense, wilted under the steady assault of senior quarterback Chris Pizzotti and his receivers. On the game’s opening drive, Pizzotti hit sophomore Matt Luft for a 40-yard touchdown strike that gave the Crimson a 7-0 lead and instant momentum just 1:08 into the contest...